a big (little) family

Trying to maintain my sanity and live to blog about it.

TOS Review: Koru Naturals

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When the Review Crew offered products from Koru Naturals as part of a review, I was pretty excited. Who wouldn’t want to step away from homeschool and curricula for a bit for a little something for me?! I received Pure Lanolin Lip Balms and a bottle of Emu Oil for my review. First off, I had […]

Recipe: Chicken in a Basil Cream Sauce

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This is a favorite recipe of ours, given to me by my sister in law. Chicken in a Basil Cream Sauce 1/4 cup milk 1/4 cup dry bread crumbs 4 chicken breasts 3 T butter/margarine 1 T olive oil 1/2 cup chicken broth 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1 4oz jar diced pimentos, drained 1/2 cup […]

TOS Review: Great Commission Films

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Here begins our new Crew year! My first review for the Crew this year is for Great Commission Films and their documentary Film, IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America. To add to my excitement, I got to be the one to write the summary post over on the Review Crew Blog! It […]

Sleep deprived but still here.

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I had four extra kids in my house today. They were awesome. The mess was awesome. The tracks in the snow trampling every inch of the yard state that the day was entirely awesome. Bedtime tonight was a breeze. Blaine flew to South Carolina today. I had to drop him off at 5:00am. I went […]

Mathematics, Dried Milk Crusts, and Problematic Peanut Butter Cups

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Blaine took the kids to church tonight, and I stayed home with sleeping Elliot. (Formerly sleeping. Now she’s ingesting dry cheerios at a rapid rate and looking thoroughly confused at the quiet house she woke up to.) I was cleaning up supper after they left, found a nasty dried out milk mess under the spoon […]

Sewing Gone Crazy

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I’ve begun a sewing business. Like it or not, planned or not, here we go – for the next month, at least. I envision things quieting down after that. A few weeks ago I posted a mei tai baby carrier that I’d made on a For-Sale page on Facebook. I’d made it having just barely enough […]

Mismatched Pans

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When Blaine and I were first married, we received a set of pans. I used them all, but most often I reached for the little ones. Soon more children caused me to use the larger pans, and the little ones saw less use. In recent years, my most used pan was the largest, a 5.5 […]

Pickles, baking soda, birthdays, and week long work trips.

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Eden Rayne turned ten years old today. Her baby sister Elliot Adelaide turned eleven months today. It was quite the day. Their dear daddy, hardworking man that he is, headed to Florida this morning to do a boat photo shoot this week. I offered to hide out in the back of the van and tag along […]

Inner dilemma.

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I was in the grocery store with just Ellie. She was on my back in my carrier, and hamming it up for the lady behind us in the checkout. The lady commented. “She’s so happy! None of mine were shy either.” I agreed. Ellie was super happy. She always is when I wear her. The […]

25% off… and pride in her place around here.

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Lilla Rose is having a sale today. Everything is 25% off until 8pm PST. www.lillarose.biz/abiglittlefamily is my link if you care to go shopping. Since Lilla Rose seems to be the conversation of the day, and we were recently discussing how all the girls love to wear the flexi clip but poor Ellie doesn’t have […]